Laravel – Auth installed but logout route not found

I made a laravel system and included the Auth scaffolding stated in the documentation. I installed it by using

composer require laravel/ui --dev

php artisan ui vue --auth

And running npm install and npm run dev to compile the assets. But for some weird reason the /logout route returns a 404. My routes look like this

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Auth::routes();

I don’t know where to look. How can I fix this?

Answer

If you take a look at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php you will see this piece of code:

public function auth(array $options = [])
{
    // Authentication Routes...
    $this->get('login', 'AuthLoginController@showLoginForm')->name('login');
    $this->post('login', 'AuthLoginController@login');
    $this->post('logout', 'AuthLoginController@logout')->name('logout');
...

Which means that no GET route is defined for logout, only POST. That’s why you are getting a 404 response. You can add one GET route by yourself with custom page, if you need, something like:

Route::get('/logout', function () {
    return view('my_logout_view');
});